Since you are interested in Schubert: Winterreise D911, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, with Kristine Opolais (soprano) [ Sony / CD - released 6/Oct/2015 ] "...a gloriously bronze-voiced German tenor, welding musicianship with smouldering emotion...Pappano and his Santa Cecilia orchestra fire up every track with native Italian passion." Financial Times |
PACINI / BELLINI / MERCADANTE / DONIZETTI / etc
Stella di Napoli Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] 'Joyce DiDonato's love letter to Neapolitan 'bel canto' is all about the voice, and what a voice it proves to be. Vocal pyrotechnics hold no terrors, and her creamy mezzo leaves no nuance unturned.' (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Recital) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder [Four last Songs] / Ein Heldenleben Anna Netrebko (soprano) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Daniel Barenboim [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "Netrebko sings with an opulence of voice and colour that doubters should be silenced." Financial Times, 5th December 2014 **** |
GOUNOD / MASSENET / THOMAS / BIZET / OFFENBACH / MASSENET / etc
L'Opera: 19th Century French opera arias & duets Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) with Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) & Ludovic Tézier (baritone) / Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Oct/2017 ] "There should be no carping at his finely judged phrasing, his psychological acuity and, when he hits a sweet spot, sheer seductive swagger." The Times |
Miloš Karadaglic (guitar)
Blackbird - The Beatles Album [ Mercury Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2016 ] After having explored the core classical heritage of the guitar in his three previous albums, Miloš makes a thrilling new departure. He performs dazzling and innovative new arrangements of classic songs by the Beatles, collaborating with celebrated... |